Category: Free Software

How long are you supposed to hold on to your digital identity? What does it even mean to have a digital ID? In my blog post series I call Securing your digital home, I’ve written about digital identity, keys and secrets. I started writing about this because I wanted to put some better structure around … Continue reading Rebooting my digital identity→

I’m very positive about the future of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology and the good that it can bring to this world. But it’s not gonna be a straight line to mass-adoption. It’ll take a while for the good in people to cut through greed, inequality and evil powers. I’ve written in the past about how … Continue reading It’s gonna get worse, before it gets better→

Zero-knowledge proof cryptography is something that I have lots of interest in. It’s a type of cryptography that allow a prover to prove to a verifier that a certain statement is true, without revealing anything else apart from that statement. ZK-SNARKS, a variant of zero-knowledge proofs, is being built into Ethereum (it already exists in … Continue reading Two balls and the colour-blind friend→

In about one month my Drupal.org profile will turn 10 years old. Oh boy, has it been a ride! My history with Drupal and the web industry is too long to cover on this short train in Sweden that I’m currently on. But it’s safe to say that there’s been many long nights, long weekends, … Continue reading 10 years on Drupal.org→

Over the past week I’ve been working on part 6 of the Building dapps on Ethereum. Unfortunately, time hasn’t permitted me to finish all the development work and document it in blog post. The previous parts of the series has been working with a local single-node blockchain. In part 6 we are going to cover … Continue reading Short update on my Ethereum dapp series→

It’s sometimes hard to frame conversations around cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ether. That’s largely down to the fact that no one can truly express what these things are, and what they mean to humans and our society. These are entirely new organisms that lack precedence. Is Bitcoin money? Is Bitcoin a network or a protocol? … Continue reading Bitcoin is not money→

It’s a common misconception that the creator and/or the developers are in sole control of the blockchains they create, such as Bitcoin or Ethereum. But in reality governance of blockchains involves different parties that act according to whatever incentive they have. In the case of the Ethereum network, it consists of various participants that all … Continue reading How governance works for the Ethereum blockchain→

I’m really excited about the upcoming Drupal 8.5 release at the beginning of 2018. In the Workflow Initiative our goal is to include, in core, the rewritten version of the Workspace module. It’s been a long journey here, much longer than what I’ll be able to summarise in this short blog post. But the essence … Continue reading Plan to throw one version away, you will, anyhow→

On this blog I’ve talked a lot about blockchain technology recently. And while blockchains certainly are disruptive to how we use and agree on shared information, or run shared applications, they aren’t changing how we do general purpose computing, or personal computing.<!—more—> What is personal computing? Storing or reading private documents, storing emails or maintaining … Continue reading New era of personal computing→